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Like many other fields, the healthcare industry also requires someone who can handle all the official accounts related tasks. The professionals called as medical billers handle these accounts of healthcare industries.

Medical biller can get employment opportunity in any of the healthcare centers like hospitals, insurance companies, clinics, physician’s offices, or nursing homes. These professionals perform certain task like working with codes and insurance claims etc.

However, in order to get employment opportunities in the healthcare centers, these professionals undergo a training process. This training process is called as medical billing training in NYC.

Education – other than just getting a training of medical billing, an individual must achieve a high school education or its equivalent from a proper school. In order to get eligible for the training process, it is mandatory to complete basic education needs.

Apparently, an individual should be good in calculations and must have good knowledge of computers. Knowledge of computers is must because all the official work is to be done on the computer. Moreover, this field is more about accounts, so knowledge about accounts is must for them. Other requirements that an individual must hold includes communication skills and business skills.

Salary – there is a broad scope in medical billing profession. In addition, they get a good salary package, which gives them a motivation to work for longer period. However, salary structure depends on various aspects like their education, previous experience, position of job, states and many more etc. initially it is seen that new employees might get less salary package but apparently as they progress in the field, their wages automatically increase. Other factor that decides the salary package depends on your current residing state, as wages of some states are higher in comparison to others.

Work hours – Usually medical biller is required to work 40 hours per week that also from Monday to Friday. Their schedule is of fixed duration from nine to five. However, some of them even get liberty to work from home. Moreover, timings are flexible and depend on the clients.

Certification – the medical biller who has attained proper training process gets a certification from the training center. However, in order to get the certification, medical biller is required to go through an exam called as ‘billing & coding specialist certification’, which is conducted by (NHA) that is known as National Health Career Association. One can become a certified professional coder or a CPC after getting certification. The one who attains certification gets more career opportunities but in some states, it is not necessary to get certification.